Sunday Am

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I hit the Niangua over the weekend for a few hours late Saturday and early Sunday......post-canoe/pre-canoe. The water was as low and clear as I've seen it. Saturday evening I fished around the Bennett Access on only landed one....a smallmouth. I hit Barclay about 7 AM on Sunday and couldn't get a bite on my standard woolybuggers and 6x tippet. I switched to 7x and a double rig of soft hackles and started hooking up steadily on Browns, and the occasional little sucker or shiner, I don't know what they are called. I landed one nice fat 14" Brown, and a bunch of little teeny ones, under 6". I was talking to Jerry at Weaver's about the Browns they stock on the Niangua and he doesn't think they stock any that small, but he also said the biologists tell him that the Browns can't naturally reproduce on the Niangua. Do any of you with experience on the Niangua have any info on that? Jerry did say that lots of other people have reported catching very small Browns out there also.

Any fisheries biologists out there?

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Or for fellow Seinfeld fans " Is there a marine biologist in the crowd?"

[fishinwrench]

I landed one nice fat 14" Brown, and a bunch of little teeny ones, under 6". I was talking to Jerry at Weaver's about the Browns they stock on the Niangua and he doesn't think they stock any that small, but he also said the biologists tell him that the Browns can't naturally reproduce on the Niangua. Do any of you with experience on the Niangua have any info on that? Jerry did say that lots of other people have reported catching very small Browns out there also.

Glad you got to get on it. I looked it over last Friday at 64 access but the head count was more than I was in the mood to deal with.

I don't see why they wouldn't stock them at 6-8 inches, as that's a tad big to be food for "Niangua-sized" Smallmouth. I see no reason to keep feeding them pellets when they can eat for free in the river.

I have learned one thing....and that is "you can't believe much of anything that biologists or friends of biologists tell you", cuz it's all pretty much BS. Or at the least "useless info".

Don't have to tell you that though, as you obviously proved that yesterday, hu?